{"product_id":"owned-adrian-vale-9798195162122","title":"Owned: A Dark Cartel Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe year ended. She stayed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElena Reyes was supposed to leave when the arrangement was over. One year, then freedom. That was the agreement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe didn't go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiguel Vega didn't ask her to stay. He didn't need to. Something had shifted between them in the compound, in the secondary study, in the long evenings where the transaction had become something neither of them had a word for yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow the Foundation is expanding. The municipality programme is live. Elena is no longer a settlement. She is the person who understands the operation better than anyone who was born into it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd someone has noticed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe arrangement was supposed to be simple. What comes after it is more complicated, more dangerous, and more real than anything the contract ever covered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOwned\u003c\/i\u003e is Book 2 of the Cartel Vows series, a slow burn dark romance about what happens when the year is over and leaving stops being the plan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContinues in Book 3: Reclaimed.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDark romance. Slow burn. Morally grey hero. Intended for mature readers 18+.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adrian Vale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798195162122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d","brand":"Adrian Vale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173029978367,"sku":"9798195162122","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/owned-adrian-vale-9798195162122","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}